An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6685-01-114-2468
NSN 5895-01-141-7416
NSN 6105-00-891-9768
NSN 5950-01-539-9576
NSN 6145-01-587-2371
NSN 6650-01-413-8408
NSN 6145-01-068-3234
NSN 5985-00-548-4298
NSN 6220-01-275-7239
NSN 5960-01-223-9466
NSN 5935-01-091-0991
NSN 5920-01-500-2150